Head of Government-elect of Mexico City Clara Brugada with her newly appointed cabinet members. Photo: Google

By KELIN DILLON

Head of Government-elect of Mexico City Clara Brugada has selected a roster of officials to her 2024 to 2030 cabinet that includes 53 percent women, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) politician announced during a press conference on Monday, Aug. 19. 

While Brugada initially announced she would have an equal balance of men and women in her cabinet, she ultimately chose to appoint a selection of 11 women and nine men to the 20-person committee.

In terms of her female appointments, Brugada nodded current Secretary of Culture Alejandra Frausto as Mexico City’s Secretary of Tourism, Araceli Damián González as Secretary of Inclusion and Social Welfare, Nadine Flora Gazamn Zylbermann as Secretary of Health, Myriam Urzúa as Secretary of Integrated Risk Management and Civil Protection, and Inés González as Secretary of Labor and Employment Promotion.

The capital chief also selected Nelly Antonio Juárez Audelo as Secretariat of Indigenous Peoples and Neighborhoods, Julia Alvarez Icaza Ramirez as Secretary of the Environment, Ana Francis López Bayghen Patiño as Secretary of Culture, Manola Zabalza Aldama as Secretary of Economic Development, Daptnhe Cuevas Ortiz as Secretariat of Women of Mexico City and Eréndira Cruz Villegas as legal counsel.

“All the secretariats will have a feminist perspective, where the gender perspective will be strengthened, which will fight for equality and the historical debt that we all have to women,” said Brugada.

Brugada nominated the following men to her cabinet: Alejandro Encinas was selected as the head of the new Secretariat of Planning and Territorial Development, César Cravioto as Secretary of the Government of Mexico City, Pablo Enrique Yanes Rizo as Secretariat of Education, Science and Technology and Pablo Vázquez Camacho as Secretariat of Citizen Security.

Brugada’s male appointments likewise included Juan Pablo de Botton Falcon as Secretary of Administration and Finance, Raúl Basulto Luviano as Secretary of Public Works and Services, Tomás Pliego Calvo as the head of the New Citizen Service Secretariat, Hector Ulises Garcia Nieto as Secretary of Mobility, Inti Muñoz Santini as the Secretary of Mexico City Housing and José Mario Esparza Hernández as Secretary of Water and Sustainable Management.

“We are also going to work very closely to ensure that this team of men and women who make up the city’s cabinet is a government for all, for all. We have a great responsibility that we will know how to fulfill because public service is the means to transform,” added the CDMX Head of Government-elect, noting her intention to continue Claudia Sheinbaum’s legacy in her new role in charge of the Mexican capital.

“We are going to make this great city the land of utopias where all rights are claimed. This is a great task to place culture at the center of public policy,” concluded Brugada.

Brugada is expected to take office as Mexico City’s Head of Government beginning on Oct. 5.